#Leo Spitzer

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

NASA’s Webb provides another look into galactic collisions

mile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays it in much higher resolution. This image is a composite, combining observations from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera).

NIRCam highlights the stars within both galaxies and reveals the connection between them: a transparent, white bridge of stars and gas pulled from both galaxies during their passage. MIRI data, represented in orange-red, shows star-forming regions and dust that is composed of soot-like organic molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. MIRI also provides a snapshot of the bright nucleus of the large spiral, home to a supermassive black hole.

The spiral galaxy is classified as a Seyfert galaxy, one of the two largest groups of active galaxies, along with galaxies that host quasars. Seyfert galaxies aren’t as luminous and distant as quasars, making them a more convenient way to study similar phenomena in lower energy light, like infrared.

This galaxy pair is similar to the Cartwheel Galaxy, one of the first interacting galaxies that Webb observed. Arp 107 may have turned out very similar in appearance to the Cartwheel, but since the smaller elliptical galaxy likely had an off-center collision instead of a direct hit, the spiral galaxy got away with only its spiral arms being disturbed. 

The collision isn’t as bad as it sounds. Although there was star formation occurring before, collisions between galaxies can compress gas, improving the conditions needed for more stars to form. On the other hand, as Webb reveals, collisions also disperse a lot of gas, potentially depriving new stars of the material they need to form.

Webb has captured these galaxies in the process of merging, which will take hundreds of millions of years. As the two galaxies rebuild after the chaos of their collision, Arp 107 may lose its smile, but it will inevitably turn into something just as interesting for future astronomers to study.

Arp 107 is located 465 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s premier space science observatory. Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).

TOP IMAGE: This composite image of Arp 107, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), reveals a wealth of information about the star-formation and how these two galaxies collided hundreds of million years ago. Credit NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

LOWER IMAGE: This image of Arp 107, shown by Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), reveals the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the large spiral galaxy to the right. This black hole, which pulls much of the dust into lanes, also display’s Webb’s characteristic diffraction spikes, caused by the light that it emits interacting with the structure of the telescope itself. Credit NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

[apod]

2023 September 20

Methane Discovered on Distant Exoplanet Illustration Credit: Ahmad Jabakenji (ASU Lebanon, North Star Space Art); Data: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST

Explanation: Where else might life exist? One of humanity's great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of distant exoplanet K2-18b. The planet and its parent star, K2-18, lie about 124 light years away toward the constellation of the Lion (Leo). The exoplanet is significantly larger and more massive than our Earth, but orbits in the habitable zone of its home star. K2-18, although more red than our Sun, shines in K2-18b's sky with a brightness similar to the Sun in Earth's sky. The 2019 discovery of atmospheric water was made in data from three space telescopes: Hubble, Spitzer, and Kepler, by noting the absorption of water-vapor colors when the planet moved in front of the star. Now in 2023, further observations by the Webb Space Telescope in infrared light have uncovered evidence of other life-indicating molecules -- including methane. The featured illustration imagines exoplanet K2-18b on the far right orbited by a moon (center), which together orbit a red dwarf star depicted on the lower left.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230920.html

[musicforspaandearthquake]

project map

Leo Spitzer, Milieu and Ambiance

Brian Eno, Ambient Music/Music for Airports.

Timothy Morton, Ambiance in Ecology and Nature

Thibaud, On Ambiance

Editors, Ambient Literature

Rickerts, Ambient Rhetoric (2013)

Paul Roquet, Ambient Media (2016)

Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough (2015)

Ulrik Schmidt, Ambiance and Ubiquity (2013)

Seth Kim-Cohen, Against Ambiance (2016).

[nlockett]

September 20, 2023: Methane Discovered on Distant Exoplanet Where else might life exist? One of humanity's great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of distant exoplanet K2-18b. The planet and its parent star, K2-18, lie about 124 light years away toward the constellation of the Lion (Leo). The exoplanet is significantly larger and more massive than our Earth, but orbits in the habitable zone of its home star. K2-18, although more red than our Sun, shines in K2-18b's sky with a brightness similar to the Sun in Earth's sky. The 2019 discovery of atmospheric water was made in data from three space telescopes: Hubble, Spitzer, and Kepler, by noting the absorption of water-vapor colors when the planet moved in front of the star. Now in 2023, further observations by the Webb Space Telescope in infrared light have uncovered evidence of other life-indicating molecules -- including methane. The featured illustration imagines exoplanet K2-18b on the far right orbited by a moon (center), which together orbit a red dwarf star depicted on the lower left.

[uwmspeccoll]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27

75 years ago today, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp was liberated by the Red Army. From 1940 to 1945 over a million were murdered at the camps, including at least 960,000 Jews. Many thousands also survived this horror, so on this day of remembrance, we honor those survivors, many of whom are still with us, with sample images from a booklet that accompanied a 2007 video installation by the noted Argentine artist Mirta Kupferminc, entitled La Piel de la Memoria (The Skin of Memory). 

The daughter of Auschwitz survivors, Kupferminc in La Piel de la Memoria focuses on tattoos, especially prisoner tattoos, as identifiers and permanent markers of witness.She uses her own mother as a principal subject in her work; she grew up, as she says, “embraced by my parents’ tattooed arms.” In their short introduction to the booklet, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer write:

The number tattoo is the predominant, perhaps even the singular signifier of the Shoah. . . . This perhaps because it makes permanently visible how prisoners were stripped of their names, their identities, their past lives -- how human beings were turned into bureaucratic ciphers, Häftlinge. . . .  Those who live with the Auschwitz tattoo live inside bodies that are memorials and media of defiance. Their arms are signposts alerting against the dangers of historical forgetting. . . . Here the daughter artist is performing a daring provocation. Staging the scene of the tattoo, she asks each of us to ponder what it might have been like, had we been there. Is it empathy? Identification? Appropriation of the trauma of the survivor? Those who respond to the call will have to decide for themselves.

The work of Mirta Kupferminc was among the very first set of materials we acquired when we initiated our Jewish Latin America Collection in 2007. Our copy of La Piel de la Memoria is Kupferminc’s signed presentation copy to the UWM Libraries. 

On this day of remembrance, and in all future days, we remember.

View more posts on the work of Mirta Kupferminc.

[finita--la--commedia]

When we reproduce in our own speech a portion of our partner's utterance, then by virtue of the very change in speakers a change in tone inevitably occurs: the words of "the other person " always sound on our lips like something alien to us, and often have an intonation of ridicule, exaggeration, or mockery.

Leo Spitzer as quoted by Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) in “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics”, translated from the Russian by Caryl Emerson “Когда мы воспроизводим в своей речи кусочек высказывания нашего собеседника, то уже в силу самой смены говорящих индивидов неизбежно происходит изменение тона: слова «другого» всегда звучат в наших устах как чуждые нам, очень часто с насмешливой, утрирующей, издевательской интонацией…”

[mayolfederico]

Luigi Malerba ~ Strategie del comico (2)

Luigi Malerba ~ Strategie del comico (2) http://wp.me/p5hAe5-w5

  The Moschophoros, 570 a.C. circa, scultura, marmo dell’Imetto, Museo dell’Acropoli, Atene   Comico soggettivo   Racconta Šklovskij (Il punteggio di Amburgo) che in una casa di Amburgo suonavano sul mandolino Eterna memoria, una celebre marcia funebre, e che in una stanza c’era gente che piangeva mentre in una stanza attigua altri ballavano al suono della stessa musica. Dunque una musica, un…

[nasa]

Travel to Exotic Destinations in our Galaxy!

The planets beyond our solar system – exoplanets – are so far away, often trillions of miles, that we don’t have the technology to truly see them. Even the best photos show the planets as little more than bright dots. We’ve confirmed more than 5,000 exoplanets, but we think there are billions. Space telescopes like Hubble aren’t able to take photos of these far-off worlds, but by studying them in different wavelengths of light (colors), we’ve learned enough about conditions on these planets that we can illustrate them.

We know, thanks to the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope, that there is a thick atmosphere on a planet called 55 Cancri e about 40 light-years away. And Hubble found silicate vapor in the atmosphere of this rocky world. We also know it’s scorching-close to its Sun-like star, so … lava. Lots and lots of lava. This planet is just one of the many that the James Webb Space Telescope will soon study, telling us even more about the lava world!

You can take a guided tour of this planet (and others) and see 360-degree simulations at our new Exoplanet Travel Bureau.

Travel to the most exotic destinations in our galaxy, including:

Kepler-16b, a planet with two suns.

Then there’s PSO J318.5-22, a world with no sun that wanders the galaxy alone. The nightlife would never end on a planet without a star.

TRAPPIST-1e, which will also be studied by the Webb Space Telescope, is one of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a star about 40 light-years from Earth. It’s close enough that, if you were standing on this exoplanet, you could see our Sun as a star in the Leo constellation! You can also see it on the poster below: look for a yellow star to the right of the top person’s eye.

We haven’t found life beyond Earth (yet) but we’re looking. Meanwhile, we can imagine the possibility of red grass and other plants on Kepler-186f, a planet orbiting a red dwarf star.

We can also imagine what it might be like to skydive on a super-Earth about seven times more massive than our home planet. You would fall about 35% faster on a super-Earth like HD 40307g, making for a thrilling ride!

Any traveler is going to want to pick up souvenirs, and we have you covered. You can find free downloads of all the posters here and others! What are you waiting for? Come explore with us!

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

[stilouniverse]

Leo Spitzer “Perifrasi del concetto di fame” recensione di Francesco Erbani da La Repubblica cultura Le lettere raccolte da Leo Spitzer I soldati italiani che non potevano dire di avere fame…

[trickkombowerskru]

Masterlist Part 2

A/N:Tumblr said the first masterlist was too long, but a majority of my work can be found was listed there and it can be found here :)

* = Smut or NSFW

It 2017:

Henry Bowers:

Being Henry’s Little Sister In The Losers Club

Henry Trying To Pick A Fight With His Girlfriend After Butch

Henry With A Domestic Girlfriend

Caught

Henry Teasing His Girlfriend For Being Soft

Henry Finding Out His Girlfriend Is A Mermaid

Trance

Safe Haven

Reunited

Henry Falling For A Juniper Hills Nurse

White Picket Fence Life

I Love You

Henry’s Thoughts When Seeing His Girlfriend Again After 27 Years

Welcome Back

Domestic!Henry When The Twins Are Born

Christmas With Henry

A Father’s Worst Nightmare

*Henry Relieving His Girlfriend In Public

O’Brother

Henry Falls For A Stoic Native American Girl

Road Trip Part 2 Part 3

Being Henry’s Daughter

Henry When His Girlfriend Defends Him From Butch

Unprofessional

Wanted

Henry Dates A Soft Girl

I’m Not Crazy

Patrick Hockstetter:

Patrick Dates A Curious Girl

Patrick Finds Out His Girlfriend Has Tourette’s

Patrick Falls For An Obsessive Girl

Patrick Dating Belch’s Older Brother

*Patrick Finding His Girlfriend’s Diary

Patrick Dating A Girl Afraid Of Fire And Knives

Getting Handcuffed To Patrick For The Day

Patrick Dates A Smart Girl

*Patrick Finding His Boyfriend’s Vibrator

Patrick And Vic Date A Punk Girl

How Patrick Met His Girlfriend

Missing

Christmas With Patrick

House Party Blues

*Yes Daddy

*Patrick When His Curvy Girlfriend Wears Form Fitting Clothes

*His Plan

Patrick Dates A Girl Who Doesn’t Think She’s Real

What Patrick Looks For In A Goddess

Journal

Being Patrick’s Daughter

Victor Criss:

It’s Okay

Patrick And Vic Date A Punk Girl

Snowball Fight

Vic Getting A New Years Gift For His Girlfriend

*Vic Having A Mommy Kink

Being Vic’s Daughter

Belch Huggins:

Belch Dates A Cheerleader

*Belch When His Girlfriend Rides His Thigh

Drunk Belch

*Belch Having A Mommy Kink

Hey Good Lookin’

Funsize

Thick Skinned

See You Around

Belch’s Girlfriend Putting Makeup On Him While He’s Asleep

Boy Next Door

Being Belch’s Daughter

All the boys:

*Lazy Early Morning Sex With The Bowers Gang

The Bowers Gang When Their S/O Slaps Them During A Fight

The Bowers Gang Having A Horror Movie Marathon With Their Best Friend

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriends Have A Panic Attack

The Bowers Gang Catch Their Girlfriends Asleep

The Bowers Gang With Boyfriends Who Like To Get In Fights

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriends Work Hard To Get Them A Birthday Present

The Bowers Gang With Girlfriends Who Have Big Families

The Bowers Gang When Someone Insults Their Chubby Girlfriends

The Bowers Gang’s Girlfriends Being Scared Of Another Member

The Bowers Gang Learning To Cook

The Bowers Gang Have A Sleepover With Their Best Friend

The Bowers Gang Dates Religious Girls

The Bowers Gang’s Quirks That Annoy Their S/Os

The Bowers Gang When Shy Girls Ask Them Out

The Bowers Gang Falling For Their Enemies

The Bowers Gang’s Girlfriends Getting Them To Wear Couple Costumes For Halloween

The Bowers Gang Teaching Their Little Sisters How To Fight

The Bowers Gang’s Little Sisters Having Crushes On Another Member

The Bowers Gang Find Out Their Little Sisters Have A Gang Of Their Own

Hello Again

The Bowers Gang Finding Out Their Girlfriends Are Witches

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriends Fall Hard On Ice

The Bowers Gang With A Trans S/O

The Bowers Gang When Their S/Os Get Braces

The Bowers Gang Trying To Save Their Girlfriends Lives

The Bowers Gang Getting Their Asses Kicked By A Girl They Cat Called

The Bowers Gang Finding Their Girlfriends Old Scars

The Bowers Gang Meeting Their Girlfriends’ Parents

The Bowers Gang Date Girls With ADHD

The Bowers Gang Watching Disney Movies With Their S/Os

The Bowers Gang Meeting Their Daughter’s Boyfriends

The Bowers Gang With A Bipolar S/O

Poly!Bowers Gang:

The Bowers Gang’s S/O Tells Them They Like Patrick’s Roughness

Belch’s Reaction to The Gang’s Girlfriend Fixing Up Amy

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriend Says Another One Member’s Name In Bed

The Bowers Gang With A Mob Tied Girlfriend

The Bowers Gang Helping Their Girlfriend Get Her Mind Off Loosing A Relative

The Bowers Gang Finds Out Their Girlfriend Lives In An Orphanage

The Bowers Gang With A Good Cook Girlfriend

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriend Is Nervous To Be Out With Them

Flirt

Popular

The Bowers Gang Falling For A Stripper

The Bowers Gang Dating Bev’s Older Sister

*Working A Summer Job With The Bowers Gang

The Bowers Gang Date A Girl From Another Gang

The Bowers Gang Help Their Girlfriend Through Her Parents’ Divorce

Present

The Bowers Gang Date A Teacher’s Pet

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriend Gets Valentine’s Gifts From Others

The Bowers Gang Date A Roller Derby Girl

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriend Fights Someone For Them

The Bowers Gang When Their Girlfriend Is On Her Period

The Bowers Gang When The Girl They Like Lays Out What She Wants In The Relationship

The Bowers Gang With A Girlfriend In A Band

The Bowers Gang With A Girlfriend Who Has Anemia

*Talking Body *Part 2

Dinner For Five

Deep Depths

Sketchbook

The Bowers Gang Date A Half Devil Girl

The Bowers Gang With An S/O Who Has An Eye For Lipsticks

The Bowers Gang With An S/O Who Knows Hair Care

Nicotine

The Bowers Gang Date A Girl Who Went To Juvy

The Bowers Gang Taking A Long Plane Trip With Their Girlfriend

The Bowers Gang Date A Mom Friend

PatHen:

Ransom

How Patrick Keeps Guys Away From Henry

It Chapter 2:

Ben Hanscom:

Ben When His Girlfriend Has A Migraine

Going To A Christmas Party With Ben

*Ben Getting Pegged

Richie Tozier:

Richie’s Best Friend Helping Him Come To Terms With His Sexuality

Human Diary

A Punch To The Face

Funny Guy

Baby Mama

Beverly Marsh:

Henry’s Brother Dates Bev

Bev With A Chubby Girlfriend

Eddie Kaspbrak:

Baby Mama

Stanley Uris:

Makeout Sessions With Stan

Mike Hanlon:

Mike Finding Out His Best Friend Avenged His Parents

Bill Denbrough:

Makeout Sessions With Bill

All The Losers:-

Poly Losers Club:-

Benverly:-

The 100:

Jasper Jordan:-

Bellamy Blake:-

John Murphy:-

Monty Green:-

Raven Reyes:-

Octavia Blake:-

Harper McIntyre:-

Emori:-

Bellarke:-

The Flash:

Barry Allen:-

Cisco Ramon:

Day In

Caitlin Snow:

Caitlin Dates Cisco’s Sister

Killer Frost:-

Ralph Dibny:

Snowbarry:

How Killer Frost Feels About Barry And Caitlin’s Relationship

Being In A Poly Relationship With Caitlin And Barry

Bloodline

Nolan Rayburn:

Nolan Dates A Paranoid Girl

How Nolan Acts When He’s Jealous

*Helping Out

*Nolan When His Girlfriend Rides His Thigh

Christmas With Nolan

Savior

I’m A Flirt

Nolan When His Girlfriend Falls Hard On Ice

Nolan’s Soulmate

Nolan Dates A Psychology Major

Nolan Dates A Girl With ADHD

Nolan Catching His Girlfriend Singing

Nolan Helping His S/O Take Care Of Their Sick Kid

Black Mirror:

Ryan “Trick” Trebecki:

Trick Dates A Paranoid Girl

You’re Home

*VIP

Trick When His Girlfriend Falls On Ice

Trick Helping His S/O Take Care Of Their Sick Kid

Mrs.Fletcher:

Julian Spitzer:

Right Here

Convenient Encounters

*NSFW ABC’S

Relationship ABC’S

13 Reasons Why:

Zach Dempsey:-

Supernatural:

Dean Winchester:

Age Gap

*Gorgeous

Sam Winchester:-

Castiel:

Baby Angel

Jack Kline:

Just Gone

Jack Comforting His S/O After A Rough Week

Jack And His Girlfriend Getting Caught By The Boys

*Restless

*Jack Getting Pegged

*Jack Getting Intimate With His FTM Boyfriend

Charlie Bradbury:

Charlie Going To Comic Con With Her Girlfriend And Nerding Out

Claire Novack:

Safe

Team Free Will:

Surprising Team Free Will With A Karaoke Machine

Team Free Will When Crowley Gets A Hell Hound In The Bunker

The Umbrella Academy:

Diego Hargreeves:

*Diego Getting Pegged

Allison Hargreeves:-

Klaus Hargreeves:

Klaus’ Best Friend Getting Stuck In The Future With Five

Ben Hargreeves:-

Vanya Hargreeves:-

Stranger Things:

Steve Harrington:

Being In A Poly Relationship With Robin And Steve

Jonathan Byers:-

Robin Buckley:

Bullseye

Having A Secret Crush On Robin In High School

Being In A Poly Relationship With Robin And Steve

Security

Robin Dating A Girl With Anxiety

Uncharted

Nathan Drake:-

Sam Drake (including 19 y/o Sam):-

Rafe Adler:-

Harry Flynn:-

Elena Fisher:-

Chloe Frazer:-

Nadine Ross:-

Misc:

Rodrick Heffley:

Rodrick Dates An E-Girl

Rodrick Dating A Rebellious Catholic Girl

Rodrick With An Insecure S/O

Rodrick Dates An Athlete

*Busted

Drummer Boy

Rodrick Dates A Popstar

Rodrick Dates Rowley’s Older Sister

*In Uniform

Game On

Rodrick Trying And Failing To Ask His Crush Out

Adam:-

Casper Galloway:-

Leo Strange:-

Dean Taylor:-

Freddy Klein:-

Alexander

*First Time

Alec:

Relationship ABC’S

Boots Conley:

Boots Dates A Soft Straight Edge Girl

* NSFW ABC’S

Relationship ABC’S

Snowbird:-

AU:

The 100 Arrowverse:-

Supernatural IT:-

[bobbole]

WWI – bibliography (in progress)

HISTORY / ANTHROPOLOGY / LINGUISTICS

eng - ita

Eric J. Leed, No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War 1.

Jay Winter, Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century.

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory.

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August.

Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War.

Luca Sancini, Il Soldato nell’Invisibile. La Superstizione nella Grande Guerra.

Francesco Boer, Favole della Grande Guerra.

Leo Spitzer, Lettere di Prigionieri di Guerra Italiani.

 NOVELS / STORIES

eng - ita

Federico De Roberto, La Paura e altri Racconti della Grande Guerra.

Erich Maria Remarque, Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale.

Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms.

Emilio Lussu, Un anno sull’altipiano.

Daniel Mason, Il Soldato d’Inverno.

[upennmanuscripts]

Repainted Miniatures in the Frédéric Spitzer Hours

Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 38/52

   Book of Hours for the Use of Paris, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945-65–5, p. 351 and 363 (detail of retouched miniature of Saint Michael; detail of unretouched miniature of Saints George and Lawrence)

The Austrian-born, Paris-based dealer-collector Baron Frédéric Spitzer (1815–1890) is well known to those who study medieval and Renaissance art on account of his famed collection of over 4,000 items, which was sold off after his death, and also on account of the numerous deceptive objects that passed through his hands at one point in time or another. In partnership with the restorer Reinhold Vasters, Spitzer orchestrated the production of misleading objects that he sold on the art market for enormous profit.  These ran the gamut from outright forgeries, fakes, and pastiches to historicizing originals and honest replicas. A contemporary overview of his collection, before it became notorious for containing questionable objects, is provided here. Recently, Paola Cordera has written a monograph dealing with Spitzer’s wider role in the broader culture of the time, which also includes a list of the 3369 items in the 1893 auction, 508 items in the 1895 auction, and 686 items in the 1929 auction.1

The Spitzer Collection was famous for its astounding array of decorative arts, many of which remain legitimate masterpieces, but its manuscript holdings are less well-known today. Forty-three manuscripts are included in the 1893 catalogue of his posthumous sale, with most being recorded in the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. A number of items stayed in France: at least three high-quality Books of Hours from the Spitzer Collection are now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France: MS Smith-Lesouëf 39 (lot 3012 in the sale) and MS NAL 3090, and MS NAL 3187 (no. 3016 in the sale). One manuscript, however, is now in Philadelphia: PMA 1945–65–5. This Spitzer provenance was noted when the item was acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the Phillip S. Collins bequest.2 As per the Schoenberg Database manuscript record, the Philadelphia book would appear to be identifiable as item 3005 in the sale, which is described as having 298 folios and a modern red vellum binding (details that match the PMA manuscript). In Cordera’s catalogue, item 3005 is erroneously equated with the DeBuz Hours, now at the Houghton Library, Harvard (MS Richardson 42), but that book appears to have been item 3006 (the folio count and binding match up).3 Incidentally, the DeBuz Hours was also at one point in Philadelphia, as it belonged to the local collector George C. Thomas around 1900, before being sold on by Rosenbach to William King Richardson in 1947.  Cordera provides some additional information regarding the later purchasers of items 3005 and 3006 at the 1893 Spitzer sale: the former was bought by Bourgeois Frères of Cologne and the latter was bought by Godefroy Bauer of Paris. Whether these two buyers were also mixed up (i.e. whether our book was bought from the Spitzer sale by Bourgeois or Bauer) remains unclear.

In any event, the Philadelphia Book of Hours contains a fine cycle of early-fifteenth-century miniatures typical of Northern France. However, unnoticed until now are the various retouched miniatures. The whereabouts of the Book of Hours between its sale from the Spitzer collection and its acquisition by the wealthy Philadelphia publisher Phillip S. Collins, whose widow donated it to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is uncertain (though as seen above it may have passed through a bookseller in Cologne or Paris). However, given Spitzer’s lack of qualms about re-working other medieval objects, it seems safe to assume that the modifications occurred while the book was in Spitzer’s hands. The book appears to be in generally good condition, so the intervention is limited to those areas that appear to have been worn selectively.

The first obviously retouched miniature occurs in the calendar. Here, the surface of the parchment has clearly suffered some damage. Even from the digital photo, the dissimilarity in surface between the somewhat blotchy square vignettes of the harvester and Leo and the rubbed line of text above is obvious. This can be contrasted with the subtlety of the vignettes for the other months, which appear unaltered.

   PMA, 1945–65–5, p. 13 (first half of calendar for July; detail of the retouched Labor of the Month and Zodiac vignettes)

   PMA, 1945–65–5, p. 7 (first half of calendar for April; detail of the unretouched Labor of the Month and Zodiac vignettes)

Other miniatures, like the Flight into Egypt and the Suffrages for Saint Michael (see above), Saints Roman and Audoenus/Ouen/Owen, and Saint Genevieve also bear traces of partial repainting. The retouched areas, usually limited to the heads of figures, are quite easy to spot. Several of these zones appear to have been subjected to localized damage prior to being repainted, perhaps caused by an early user of the book rubbing or kissing certain images of special importance. Of course, retouching illuminated manuscripts with anything approaching the finesse of the originals is notoriously difficult, but not impossible, as other examples preserved in Philadelphia prove. Recent research has also harnessed technical analysis to confirm the use of modern pigments in suspected forged miniatures elsewhere. However, the built-in protection of miniatures provided by the codex format, combined with the ready visibility of repaints, saved the manuscript trade from the pervasive reworkings and outright fakes that plagued the Old Masters paintings and medieval “minor” arts markets at the end of the nineteenth century, at the very time when the Spitzer Collection was being dispersed.

Nevertheless, the following images remind us that many such alterations remain to be spotted.

   PMA, 1945–65–5, p. 171 (Vespers of the Hours of the Virgin with retouched miniature of the Flight into Egypt; detail of miniature)

   PMA, 1945–65–5, p. 378 (Suffrage for Saints Roman and Audoenus/Ouen/Owen; detail of miniature)

   PMA, 1945–65–5, p. 424 (Suffrage for Saint Genevieve; detail of miniature)

  from WordPress http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/repainted-miniatures-in-the-frederic-spitzer-hours/

[apod]

2019 September 17

Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet Illustration Credit: ESA, NASA, Hubble; Artist: M. Kornmesser

Explanation: Where else might life exist? One of humanity's great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward recently with the discovery of a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of distant exoplanet K2-18b. The planet and it parent star, K2-18, lie about 124 light years away toward the constellation of the Lion (Leo). The exoplanet is significantly larger and more massive than our Earth, but orbits in the habitable zone of its home star. K2-18, although more red than our Sun, shines in K2-18b's sky with a brightness similar to the Sun in Earth's sky. The discovery was made in data from three space telescopes: Hubble, Spitzer, and Kepler, by noting the absorption of water-vapor colors when the planet moved in front of the star. The featured illustration imagines exoplanet K2-18b on the right, its parent red dwarf star K2-18 on the left, and an unconfirmed sister planet between them.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190917.html

[musicforspaandearthquake]

Ambient family of words and ambient music

Many of the words related to "ambient" in Leo Spitzer's essay remain closely tied to it.

Medium. Elemental media.

Background. Ambient music as background music. Chakrabarty the background is now the foreground in anthropocene. Background of paintings and videos is often environment, sky. Background of video: Grizzly Man and StalkerCubism: background and foreground mixed.

Environment. Japanese Kyogo-gaku (sp). Brian Eno and gardening references.

Healing/embracing. Paul Roquet and healing/therapeautic. Leaving records. Youtube/Yves Tumor video.

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Forty-five years ago, the princely family of Monaco visited Welser Nobelwirt and Stift Lambach.

By Erik Famler. August 29, 2017 

The former Hollywood beauty was on August 28, 1972, in Upper Austria as a guest. On that day, during a summer holiday in Strobl am Wolfgangsee, the princely couple and their three children first made a detour to Lambach Abbey where, under the cheers of the people, they were received by Abbot Albert Siebenhüter.

Father Theodoric Doppler remembers: "It was very likeable people - not even lifted off." During a guided tour of the pen, brother Maurus Kremsner zealously shot photos: "The post office with the pictures, which we later sent to Monaco, came unopened after a few days back. They probably thought that there was a bomb in the envelope. "After a little refreshment in the Weinstüberl, the procession with Mercedes limousines set off to the landlord on the mountain, where the princely family dined:" At 24, I was still a young man and belonged to the welcoming committee. My father was a good friend of Tassilo Fürstenberg, the host of Albert and Gracia in Strobl. I remember a noble and reserved society, "says innkeeper Helmut Wiesinger. As a main course served Rehmedaillons with Eierschwammerl, For dessert there were flambéed ice pancakes. "That sounds like nothing special today. At the time, the menu was extraordinary, "says Wiesinger.

The illustrious guests spent more than four hours in Wels. Mayor Leo Spitzer and members of the city senate basked in the splendour of the princely family. In the afternoon, the blue-blooded celebrity attended a folklore performance. Guards girls of the Wels Faschingsgesellschaft operated in front of the restaurant when Schuhplatteln. On the adjoining clay pigeon, playground children showed their skills on ponies.

How the aristocratic guests responded to it, is not known: "They have endured it in a noble way," suspected Wiesinger. Himself, the hype about the celebrity guests was rather repugnant: "My father enjoyed the fanfare. I'm the opposite in that respect. "The reluctance of the later patron was probably also because a week before his grandfather died:" To him, I had a very good relationship, "Wiesinger recalls.

While the beautiful princess received costly costume jewellery as a gift, her youngest offspring reacted bored. "Seven-year-old Stephanie yawned openly, plucked at her dress and lifted the bread from the table with her mouth," the Welser Zeitung noted in a stern tone.

Source: nachrichten.at

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School’s out (forever) 😷👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼🇬🇧 #schoolsout #isolate repost @dianemeyerstudio ・・・ Two editions of this piece, Class One (Paradise School), are in exhibitions opening this this week. Editon 1/3 is in a show opening tonight @hoodmuseum @dartmouthcollege “School Photos and Their Afterlife” curated by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer. Im so excited to be in a show with so many artists Ive admired for so long including #vikmuniz #carriemaeweems #davidwojnarowicz @marcelobrodsky and especially my teacher and mentor @lorie.novak The show runs until April 12. Edition 2/3 of the piece is in a show opening tomorrow, January 9 @calpolygallery @calpolyslo “Beyond the Surface: The Photograph as Object” curated by @alinesmithson @lenscratch the show runs until January 31 and includes an amazing group of artists @kobramaier @booholler @lizstek @marinafontstudio @jpterlizzi @kkdepaul @adriene_hughes @joerudko @sandra_klein_photography and @photoscratch #groupshow #opening #vernacularphotography #schoolphotos #classphotos #beyondthesurface #photographasobject #schoolphotosandtheirafterlife #embroideredphotograph #handsewn #contemporaryart #contemporarycraft #hoodmuseum #reunion #2020exhibitions #manipulatedphotography #sewnpixels @klompchinggallery https://www.instagram.com/p/B94vIpunMdm/?igshid=d3prjpe7zm7w